react-benzin

BENZIN

React Material library for content-display featuring context-aware Markdown rendering.

Getting started

Installation

You can easily add BENZIN to your project with npm:

$ npm install react-benzin

BENZIN is designed to work in Material-UI environment, so it's best to use them together:

$ npm install @material-ui/core

Usage

One can use $variableName syntax (with backticks around!) to access context.variableName from within markdown.

Consider following markdown source.md:

# Hello, world!
 - I can render markdown
 - My name is `$name`

I can also display button below:

`$button`

We can render it using <Markdown> component:

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { Markdown } from 'react-benzin';
import { Button } from '@material-ui/core';
import source from './source.md'; // This import resolves into file url

const name = 'John Doe';
const button = <Button variant="contained" color="primary">Click me</Button>;

ReactDOM.render(<Markdown url={source} context={{ name, button }}/>, document.getElementById('root'));

Development

Running live demo

To run a live example, clone a repo and execute following commands:

$ npm i
$ npm start

It's worth noticing that presence of React-App in this repo forces us to split some configurations. For example, we have 2 Typescript configs: one for react-scripts to run live-demo, and the other one to build distribution files.

Running tests

$ npm test

NOTE: this command assures that ESlint does not throw any warnings and exits with a non-zero status code otherwise. That means CircleCI tests would fail even if a single warning is present. Therefore, you should always locally test your changes before publishing them.

Building

We've decided to use Typescript compiler to transpile our code, since we think Babel is a bit of an overkill here.

$ npm run build

This command will generate dist/ folder ready for distribution, which you of course can explore. Note that tsc creates type definitions (.d.ts) for every corresponding .js file. It's very useful because consumers also get access to them.

Deploying

Publishing to npm is fully automated through CircleCI - package is deployed on every push into master. Therefore only release PR's should be merged into master branch.

Deploying to gh-pages is automatically performed on every commit into develop branch.

See also

• remark
• MDX